Re: Some Funny Pics.
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In the UK we have lots of 'coded phrases' that don't mean what a non-native speaker might think they do...
When politicians have had 'full and frank discussions' we know that they 'fell out'.
When a minister has the 'full backing of the prime-minister' we know that he'll be fired/forced-to-resign within a few days!
There's a newish trend for politicians to use a strange passive/it-wasn't-me form of speech - so a politician can say 'I apologize if I allowed my personal life and professional life to become blurred...', or 'The blurring of my private and professional life, is something for which I can only apologize...', but he can't say 'What I did was wrong...' - as if his lives are somehow separate from himself, and that they did these misdeeds, not him, and the worst thing he did was he did not try sufficiently hard to stop these pesky 'lives' from doing the wrong ! -
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I guess each language has this - and most probably this is the hardest to grasp for a foreigner - unless he's been actually living in that culture for long.
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@tig said:
When a minister has the 'full backing of the prime-minister' we know that he'll be fired/forced-to-resign within a few days!
There's a newish trend for politicians to use a strange passive/it-wasn't-me form of speech - so a politician can say 'I apologize if I allowed my personal life and professional life to become blurred...', or 'The blurring of my private and professional life, is something for which I can only apologize...', but he can't say 'What I did was wrong...' - as if his lives are somehow separate from himself, and that they did these misdeeds, not him, and the worst thing he did was he did not try sufficiently hard to stop these pesky 'lives' from doing the wrong !Grey-speak - everything muddled and ambiguous. Drives me mad.
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As an architectural student, I always knew I was in trouble when a tutor used the phrase "that's interesting" ...
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Canadian real estate sales mud speak.
Ocean glimpse - True if you neighbour falls every tree within 1000 m and demolishes his house.
Charming - Old, moldy, nearly un-fixable
Needs a little TLC - Actually, TLC stands for "Two Little Caterpillar" tractors to push it over.
Fixer Upper - Faller Downer
Must be seen - Before it collapses.
Cozy - Usually warmer outside than in -
Look at this picture up close. . .then look at it standing back from your monitor a few feet.
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I thought you live in Limerick, Rich...
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When I get around to getting an iPad, I have found my case of choice.
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@unknownuser said:
When I get around to getting an iPad, I have found my case of choice.
reminds me of Dave R.'s etch-a-sketch style
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which can be found near the bottom of this page:
http://www.sketchupartists.org/2011/02/styles-2011/.
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and this one isn't fake.
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Although both of the "Presidential road signs" are funny, they are both fakes...
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/birthsigns.asp -
clinton isn't a sex offender..
[well, maybe he is.. he's never been convicted of it though.. the monica bj isn't a sexual offense though.. i don't think]
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That chick would have offended me though. Clinton must have quite a low standard...
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